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Reconciling Paul and James, a beginning

kyredneck

kyredneck

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Aaron said:
James wrote to those who had become proud and complacent, and were respecters of persons.
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His audience was Jewish, towards the 'end of the age', and probably consisted of both tares and wheat, good and bad, the wicked not yet being severed from the righteous....imo.

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Hard for me to imagine that these are saints:

James Chapter 5

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Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

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Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.
 
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Paleouss

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Aaron said:
What you say is true, but we have to be careful that we aren't directing people to their own works for assurance of salvation.
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Greetings Aaron. I hope your weekend was a blessed one.

Yes, I agree that a person’s own works in no way get one closer to salvation. For it is grace alone, by His blood alone, through our faith alone.

Blessings to you brother.
 
37818

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James 2:21, Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Genesis 22:12, . . . And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Hebrews 11:17-19, By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Ephesians 2:8-10, For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
 
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